Word: distraction
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...support services. Training proctors and residential advisors will be extremely valuable; first-years, who are extremely vulnerable to sexual assault and less familiar with university administration, should feel comfortable talking to their advisors about these issues. Training preceptors, prefects and TFs can also be valuable, but it should not distract from in-depth training for the residential advisors. Centralizing information on a single website like “help.harvard.edu” will also be beneficial in ensuring that students can reach the appropriate resources. Emergency information should include sexual assault response information and be posted in every room...
...review, to devote all his time to this immense task, and he deserves the time and resources to do that job well. By saddling him with the combined deanship, Kirby has sabotaged Gross’ plans for curricular review—even as he engineers a system guaranteed to distract from student concerns...
...Board, which advises the Pentagon; amid criticism of his business ties, including one with Global Crossing, which had retained the hawkish Perle to help gain Pentagon approval of its sale to an Asian venture; in Washington. While denying any conflict of interest, Perle said he did not want to distract attention from the Pentagon's current "urgent challenge...
...stuck in a strict, conventional rural town. While his crude older brother tries to save the family's strawberry farm by turning it into a theme park, Abel sneaks away and reminisces about his frustrated relationship with a cute alty-girl who moved away. With no central gimmick to distract him, Ollmann fleshes out Abel and his world with thoughtful details like the way Abel's mother "used to laugh more when we were little but she wears her hair pulled tightly now and preserves everything in pickle jars." In the end Abel comes home to a rage-filled father...
Moreover, it would be a logistical nightmare to try to set up a new election system, new campaigning rules and secure new funding for these elections. Also the considerable effort representatives would have to put into “re-election” campaigning would distract from their actual work on the committees...